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PLATE 38.
A g a e i c u s ( P l d t e u s ) e x im iu s , W. G. S.
P ll'teus stipite crasso, solido, fibrilloso ; pileo carnoso, juniore campanulato
corrugatoque, margine involuto neo membranaceo, pellicula viscidula separabili
; carne cartilagina ; lamellis confertis, subcrassis, ex albo roseis et
demum sub-rufescentibus.
Pileus fleshy, when young campanulate and elegantly corrugated and
lobed, margin involute and not membranaceous, clothed with a semi-viscid
separable cuticle ; stem thick, solid, fibrillose ; gills crowded, somewhat
thick, white th en pa id rose, becoming slightly rufous when bruised ; flesh
cartilaginous, cutting like A. cervmus, Sclneff., taste le ss or w a te ry ; spores
yellowish salmon, spherical h u t somewhat irregular, averaging ’00036" x
•0003". On a large heap of sawdust by th e side of a saw-pit. Bish o p ’s
Wood, Highgate, Nov. 9, 1870.— W. O. S.
T h is species, which we take to be new, and previously undescrihed, is
manifestly near A petasatus, F r., b u t it differs materially in th e pileus being
fleshy throngliout, and in other characters.
P la te 38, — Figs. 1, 3, Agaricus [Pluteus] eximius, sp. nov. Fig. 3, section of
ditto. Fig. 4, trama. Fig. 5, spores X 700 dia.—W. Cf. S.
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